Reviews
Review in Sweet Lit:
“In your collection of essays, you deftly stretch and flex the delicate and injured tendons of memory to explore grief, love, and the relationship between the two. . .Your essays inspire readers to have curiosity, bravery, and wit about the things that hurt us the most.”
Review in Nebraska History:
“Deutsch’s Making a Modern West is destined to be a major reference work and deserves a wide readership among scholars and others interested in this region. While readers may have reservations about particular points, this book is full of information and insight, especially on the contested racial and ethnic experience of the twentieth-century West.”
Review in Journal of Arizona History:
“By focusing on the themes of labor, gender, and race, Deutsch intricately demonstrates again and again how work, women’s lives, and the setting and re-setting of racial categories determined who had the power to define the modern West and, by extension, the modern nation.”
Review in Nebraska History:
“Shea delivers a full-length study that appraises the military actions of Curtis, the most successful Union general west of the Mississippi River. In addition to serving in uniform, Curtis was a congressman, an engineer, an architect, an attorney, a businessman, and a commissioner. Few Americans remember Curtis’s achievements, but Shea hopes to ‘restore him to his rightful place in our history.'”
Review in Nebraska History:
“Overall, Deloria’s motivations to write and articulate a publishable study helps historians and non-native people view the Dakota culture. Having one foot in the indigenous society and another in the academic world, Deloria placed herself in a position to tell the stories of the Dakota people on a much larger stage that will continue to transcend time.”
Review in Chronicles of Oklahoma:
“Carr’s work reminds us, though, that our individual stories contribute to the larger narrative of our communities, country, and world. These histories are multifaceted and are shaped by the context of the times. Most importantly, they matter.”
The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky
Review in World Encyclopedia:
“[T]his book is a vital contribution to American West history that complicates the Upper Midwest with a multiracial past with spiritual connections outside of the U.S. The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky suits as a complimentary local history reading for an undergraduate survey class or a core reading for a topic-specific curriculum on Asian American history. Experienced researchers could use this book as an inspiration to build a history of the Upper Midwest that is connected to other national and international regions.”
Review in Civil War Monitor:
“How the city survived this period of peril is told by Silber in a deeply researched, propulsive narrative that puts the reader in company with ordinary citizens on the streets of an unsettled city. The result is a page turning history of the highest order, peppered with insightful details that make clear these twelve April days were a period that could have profoundly altered the course of the war and the fate of the nations for years—if not decades—to come.”
Review in Horn Book Magazine:
“From the collaged endpapers illustrated with watercolor vignettes and short childlike verse to reproductions of several of the poems for which Kooser became well known, this spare, quiet picture-book biography honors the former United States poet laureate.”
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 Vol. 2 and 1887-1888 Vol. 1
Review in Edith Wharton Review:
“In the case of James’s letters, Michael Anesko and Gregory W. Zacharias’s achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James’s extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information.”
Review in H-Africa:
“For anyone interested in the genesis and development of Western education in French West Africa, Gamble’s work answers multiple questions. The originaires were a complex and fluid group in terms of their geographical location as well as their identity, which the French had to construct over time. In addition, the book sheds light on their agency, as they were not content with enjoying more rights than the other Africans.”
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II
Review in Journal of Arizona History:
“Kurt Piehler’s examination of religion and the World War II GI is exceptionally well researched and written. His extensive use of archival and secondary sources, including soldiers’ memoirs, oral histories, and letters, strengthens his argument and takes the reader into the lived religious lives of American soldiers during World War II. Piehler’s work will appeal to both scholars and the general public, as well as anyone interested in the intersection of religion and war during the Second World War.”
Review in Journal of Arizona History:
“Burge’s A Failed Vision of Empire significantly contributes to the scholarship of U.S. empire. It reminds the reader that during a period that understandably draws historians’ attention to sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, many in the United States still harbored dreams—and nightmares—of continental conquest. The book confirms manifest destiny was a powerful rhetorical device that inspired an equally powerful resistance, and as Burge contends, by the 1870s, the resistance won.”
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century
Review in Journal of Arizona History:
“The foundation for this anthology was set by the questions and chronologies of the New Western History, and Brenden Rensink’s introduction, ‘Updating “Modern West” Histories for the Twenty-First Century,’ does an excellent job at recapping and situating this book in that historiography. What comes next is a collection which pushes the ‘modern’ U.S. West into the first two decades of the twenty-first century.”
Author Interviews
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